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I would almost guess that one of the drives isn't responding but the boot process shows no errors. (?)

This bit of your boot log doesn't look at all good:

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ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080

Looks like you have an intermittent IDE failure.

Peter


No, not an IDE failure. That's just the data test happening while the IDE drive is still "in reset", with a tristated data bus. The CS4231A seems to have a slight up-pull on D7, so whenever the bus is "idle", it usually reads 0080. Note that one common failure mode of the CS4231A is where D7 gets stuck fully "on" -- something fishy about that pin in general.

Cheers